Re: [microsound] Fwd: Paul Lansky pulls the plug

[Jan Larsson <jlarsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

He is talking about a somewhat different kind of computermusic than
what you get at your warehouse parties.

I think he just wants to make some music an ordinary music-interested
listener might actually want to listen to (not just a bunch of other
"computer music" composers).

In fact even eletronic music pioneer Pierre Schaeffer hade similar
thoughts at the end of his life, "Unfortunately it took me forty years
to conclude that nothing is possible outside DoReMi... In other words,
I wasted my life."



2008/8/8, guiver ben <benreviug@xxxxxxxxx>:
> what! has this person never been to a warehouse party? or a rave in a field? and frankly i really like using a guitar in addition to computer music stuff, which is electronic, and analogue, and also kind of controlled in a different way to logic or protools.
>
>  he's obviously never heard the first nightmares on wax lp either. i think the terminology in leeds at the time amongst some record shop staff was 'bedroom boys'.
>
>  maybe he's  seen some old episodes of the nathan barley show, where noel fielding ( pre mighty boosh) is a total geek with no insight into his incredibly annoying lack of talent, despite using many electronic devices and this formed the basis of his research.....
>
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>  --- On Fri, 8/8/08, craquemat <craque@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  > From: craquemat <craque@xxxxxxxxxx>
>  > Subject: Re: [microsound] Fwd: Paul Lansky pulls the plug
>  > To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  > Date: Friday, August 8, 2008, 7:22 PM
>
> > It sounds to me like the writer doesn't know electronic
>  > music, or only
>  > knows enough of a small sub-genre to make sweeping
>  > generalizations from
>  > a populist view.
>  >
>  > Case-in-point: name-dropping Radiohead instead of an artist
>  > who used his
>  > software. Looks to me like the author doesn't know
>  > anything more about
>  > Paul Lansky than Google or Wikipedia does.
>  >
>  > Maurice Rickard wrote:
>  > > Phil Stone wrote:
>  > >> I  don't disagree with the gist of what Mr.
>  > Lansky says -- more power
>  > >> to him as he enjoys the delights of acoustic music
>  > -- but the
>  > >> editorializing of the article's author is
>  > maddening.  He writes that
>  > >> computer music is about "total control",
>  > and has "no performers" (in
>  > >> fact, the word "antisocial" was thrown
>  > in for good measure).  This is
>  > >> a very bigoted view of computer music, perhaps
>  > deriving from very old
>  > >> ideas about it.
>  > >
>  > > Good point. It smells like lazy journalism--"OK,
>  > what's a quick, easy
>  > > way I can set up some kind of tension/drama here...oh,
>  > right: soulless,
>  > > antisocial computers vs. warm, friendly humanity.
>  > Yeah, that'll do."
>  > >
>  >
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